Springtime Update

May 3

Hallelujah Farm Retreat Center has been in hibernation during this time of quarantine. With physical distancing remaining important for everyone’s safety, retreats and meetings have been canceled, rescheduled, and made digital (can you say Zoom!) But, while the indoor space has been closed and waiting for everyone’s return, the outdoor space has carried on moving forward with the season’s changes.

We are eagerly anticipating the future when we can safely reconvene and host groups as they come together. We know this work and space will be more important than ever when the time comes. Groups will be able to focus not only on their primary missions of meditation or writing or spiritual practices but also on the healing of individuals and their spirits after this challenging time.

We are brainstorming now, in anticipation of the days when we can come back together: ways to continue keeping one another healthy, ways to help support our visitors in their reentry into their “normal” lives. While we look forward to those times, we also know that we cannot rush into anything and that our patience is of the utmost importance. We must all do our part to keep ourselves and our communities safe.

Here is a John O’Donohue poem and blessing for us all while we wait to be together again:

This is the time to be slow,

Lie low to the wall

Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself

And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet